Tag: Logging

Tracking changes in analytics and logs between versions/releases can be very informative. Code changes may affect how many people leave a page or form mid-way, or exceptions may suddenly sky rocket. When you're releasing multiple times a day, figuring out what exceptions or analytics pertain to which release can get a little tricky/time-consuming. Enter buildinfo.config.... Continue Reading →

If you followed the primer AI posts (here and here), you probably had the same question I did: why doesn't the exception get tacked onto all this "magic" logging. If you click that "Learn how to track exceptions for failed requests" it tells you how to track exceptions using AI. This article will tell you... Continue Reading →

Application Insights is very powerful out of the box with no further configuration, but it can be tuned for Web API so it's even more powerful. Suddenly, with a couple extra nugets and a couple configuration tweaks, you can start logging traces within .NET libraries and getting a much more robust sense of what the... Continue Reading →

Application Insights (AI) is a fantastic logging/metrics/analytics application that Azure offers for free (unless you want to increase the longevity of your data; free is 1 week lifetime). Not only is it extremely simple to get exceptions, requests, page load times, client-side exceptions and much more getting logged and aggregated, but it offers a UI that... Continue Reading →